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“like so many rich boys from rich parents who can do whatever they like, he was also absolutely horrible.”

don’t mess with the sacred chickens!!

Fascinating, funny, and chilling.

i love this book

Fantastic. I loved Emma Southon's Agrippina and I'm having a blast reading this even when the subject matter is super intense

Good so far; but why do Roman families name their kids the same name it’s driving me crazy.

i am enjoying this but every other sentence is like the longest sentence ever written

never thought i'd be a historical non fiction girlie but maybeeee

this is also really interesting historically.

this is sooooo funny

still reading this. still very much enjoying it.

Going to try my best to finish this tonight

Utterly obsessed with this one

Any book that calls Propertius a 'Reddit incel' has my heart. This is the best book I've ever had the honour of reading. <3

this book is already SO good. thank you to seaport mcnally jackson for putting it on my radar, and elise as well as the stars undying for convincing me to pick it up!

Fun and interesting. Learned a lot of fun facts

Big fan of roman murder

Audiobook

I promise I’m no prude, but I could do without the seemingly random instances of “fuck” and “shit”. It was a little funny in the first chapter, but it’s distracting later on.

nvm i’m rly enjoying this hehe

why is this written so……… crassly 🫣🫣 like swearing and trying to appear youthful idk???????? .. not a fan ..

I mean, who doesn’t want to read about gladiators?

Very interesting and entertaining so far

“Also the Romans ritually crucified dogs every year….”

They did WHAT???

“Imagine if your least favorite world leader just refused to stop being in charge when their term ended because they just didn’t want to….”

Yep, I can picture that clearly.

“…and that they also had an enormous personal army.”

At least that part’s imaginary.

Really interesting and fascinating read!

alright political murderrrr

i love it!

The book is full of personality, in particular, emma southons personality. In a way it’s kind of only enjoyable if you genuinely love her type of dry humor. I absolutely love her storytelling, she knows what her audience wants (and especially what we don’t want), and knows exactly when and where to land a punchline. As someone who studied the classics it is a very refreshing revisitation of roman culture.

Emma southan, in a very roman way, slayed.